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Excerpt from A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Rev. Ephraim Peabody, D.D., Pastor of King's Chapel, Boston: Preached Before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, December 7, 1856
A meeting of the First Congregational Society in new-bedford, was held at the close of the morning service, December 7, to make some pub lic expression of the feeling of the Society at the death of their former Pastor, Rev. Ephraim Peabody. Hon. Joseph Grinnell was called to the chair. Hon. John Henry Clifi'ord introduced, with a few appropriate expressions of his own personal feeling and of the warm regard enter tained for Mr. Peabody by this community, the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted and ordered to be printed: and Hon. J. H. Clifford, Hon. T. D. Eliot and Mr. Thomas Cook were appointed the Committee under the last resolution.
Resolved, That this Church and Society have received, with the deepest sorrow, the intelligence of the death of their former Pastor, the Rev. Ephraim Peabody. It has thus pleased Him, in whose hands are the issues of life, to close on earth a career of wide-spread Christian usefulness and in?uence, such as few of His ser vants have so faithfully filled. We bow to this decree, in that spirit of reverent submission to the Almighty Will, which, in all our griefs and sorrows while he was with us, his counsels and his example' taught us to cherish: and we should fail to exhibit the fruits of those counsels, and the force of that example, if this event did not impress us anew With a sense of gratitude to God for the inestimable privilege we enjoyed, of listening to the wise and affectionate teachings, of Witnessing the bene?cent and blameless life, and of sharing in the priceless friendship of one, whose presence for many years, was a light in all our homes, and whose dismtertsted goodness had endeared him to all our hearts.
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